AEW Blood & Guts was a triumph of violence

GREENSBORO, NC — The crowd is buzzing 30 minutes to showtime for AEW Blood & Guts. “You’ve never seen anything like this,” a man behind me tells his girlfriend attending her first pro wrestling show, “it’s going to be so, so violent” he adds — in tone that’s part-content warning, part-gladiatorial excitement.

History is being made on Wednesday night as All Elite Wrestling is having its first ever women’s Blood & Guts match. A match type both lauded and condemned for its brutality, 12 wrestlers fight in two connected rings, encased in a giant rectangular steel cage. Inside the ring anything goes, and a team can’t lose until one person

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